FreeSCI
Code freeze since yesterday evening. I guess I should update
the homepage with the news. Anyway, 0.3.1 is close, though
it'll be UNIX only this time (mostly because the DDRAW gfx
driver is still incomplete).
I think I'll abuse the Compaq TestDrive systems for testing
this time... wonder if FreeSCI builds on OpenVMS...

Entertainment
I don't quite recall who it was, but someone here at
Advogato recently gave a pointer to megatokyo.com- whoever
you were, thanks- I can't believe I overlooked this online
comic/manga for so long :-)

Handheld
Looks like a YOPY
Development kit is finally available. The YOPY, for
those who don't recall, is one of the Linux handhelds
announced last year
(StrongARM, 32 MB Flash, 16 MB SDRam, IRDA, RS-232C,
CompactFlash type 2, 240x320x65k color display, batteries).
I played with one of those on last year's CeBit, and it
seemed pretty cool back then (the display wasn't too clear,
though, and some of the programs didn't work yet). My main
complaints about it are the size- it's not too bad, but more
kludgy than a PalmPilot- and the use of batteries. For a
further analysis, I'd need one...
But back to the YOPYDK: It's priced at roughly 0.7kEUR (read
on before panicking), and it includes an actual YOPY. Unless
I missed something, all software and patches are free (gcc,
gdb etc.), so the actual value you get is the YOPY itself.
They're targetting ia32/Linux workstations as development
platforms, which means that their gcc/binutils/gdb patches
might require some 64 bit cleanups before I can use them,
but still...

Considering how much I write about this thing, it seems
likely I'll get one after this year's CeBit or so. I don't
see why it shouldn't be possible to get FreeSCI to run on it
(once memory usage has been reduced somewhat further)...